As Nate_S said, HAL stands for Hardware Abstraction Layer. As for what it is, try the following:

(1) Emerge gentoolkit-dev, and use gensync to get the BreakMyGentoo overlay. (gensync bmg-main should do it).
(2) Emerge gnome-volume-manager-cvs. This will pull in DBUS and HAL as dependencies.
(3) Start the messagebus and hald services.
(4) Run gnome-volume-properties, and check the box that says "Mount removable media when inserted".
(5) Insert a CD.

Nate_S wrote:

(is bootsplash fixed in this one? I miss it...)

Working here...

Thanks for the info but I dont use gnome here and I dont feel like installing it just for one prog (something like 50 dependencies). Is there something similiar for KDE ?

If I recall correctly, it is exactly the same as the mainline -cfq but also has io-priority support, i.e. it takes processes' nice levels into account when queueing them.

Precisely. When we talked about it in love-sources, most had no idea about it the extra feature. ;) And as it took the process's nice level into account, we figured it only really helped cases where people were renicing like mad, which seemed rare. xfree doesn't do much disk I/O.

The performance difference is quite noticeable with these patches under a heavy load. For instance, with X reniced to -15, I can have an emerge world and kernel compile running in background consoles with no noticeable slowdown in X. I've been manually adding these to each love release, but is there any chance of getting them included in the patch?

So the CFQ + I/O nice has significant gains over CFQ? Just renicing X doesn't seem like it should affect the disk priorities of other processes but I could be wrong._________________Website - All sorts of nonsense (some of it actually Linux related)

Great! A new love release, to bad that it's not patched with Win4Lin. So I guess I have to stay with 2.6.6-rc2-love2 until there's another love-release with Win4Lin support.

(I need Win4Lin for school )

i'll try to include it in next release.
PickledOnion, you can use this as a base of course but why not use submount or HAL?
Zer0: i dropped it by mistake, it's coming back next release.
ck's version of cfq4 broke AS, i'd like if i can include it but alot of people still use/like AS.
peace

EDIT: works, for anyone interested, emerge gentoolkit-dev, then make this in /etc/gensync/love-sources.syncsource :

Code:

# This id must be unique among all the ids in /etc/gensync/*.syncsource
id="love-sources"

# This is a human-readable description of the source
description="Unoffical Love Sources Rsync"

# The rsync url
rsync="rsync://rsync.andrewnelson.org/loveebuilds"

# By default, the overlay directory is set to ${base_overlay}/${id},
# where base_overlay is picked from /etc/gensync/gensync.conf
#
# You may specify a different relative path, such as
overlay="/usr/local/portage"

PickledOnion, you can use this as a base of course but why not use submount or HAL?
peace

I don't use supermount or submount, I find clicking a simple button just as effective to mount/unmount whatever media I am using (cd/dvd/usb, etc), no, for me the main thing is win4lin, I need it for my work at University and I find vmware too much of a hassle to use effectively (printing, browsing my file structure, etc).

I think love-sources are great and genuinely thank you for your effort. Now I have gone forward a bit in my knowledge I love tinkering with the kernel and far from having an onion-sources (LOL), I actually like patching my own kernel and learning the hard way. When that fails, and it usually does, it is nice to have a cutting edge kernel to fall back to, like love-sources. Make sense?

Thanks for the info but I dont use gnome here and I dont feel like installing it just for one prog (something like 50 dependencies). Is there something similiar for KDE ?

Not yet, AFAIK. Though from a brief look at the source, it doesn't look too hard to port it to KDE. Most of the code simply talks to HAL, and the GNOME dependencies seem to be mostly for the properties applet and GConf.

bootsplash
i've got the kernel all patch love-2.6.6-rc3-love3
and when i go to the device menu (menuconfig) and then graphics once i get my fbdev selected i can see the bootsplash menu at the bottom but i can't get into it. also editing the .config shows no options for bootsplash any help please? thanks!

Last edited by waspie on Tue May 04, 2004 1:20 am; edited 1 time in total

and when i go to the device menu (menuconfig) and then graphics once i get my fbdev selected i can see the bootsplash menu at the bottom but i can't get into it. also editing the .config shows no options for bootsplash any help please? thanks!

I get a problem with my mouse. It works fine in 2.6.5-love4 but now the side-buttons won´t work until I unplug the mouse and plug it in again!
So every reboot I have to do this if I want to use those buttons.

It´s a MS-Intelli-Optical USB mouse connected via adapter to PS/2

I know there are changes in the mouse-drivers, but I don´t know which function is responsible for this behavior.

dmesg|grep Mouse
for 2.6.5-love4

Code:

input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse on isa0060/serio1

and for 2.6.6-rc3-love3

Code:

input: ImExPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse on isa0060/serio1

Any hint?

thx

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I still have a problem with the Framebuffer, it stops after listing the HDDs at boot, same with bootsplash activated, and not.
Luckily X starts, so i can use the latest Love-source _________________Always running the most experimental

bootsplash
i've got the kernel all patch love-2.6.6-rc3-love3
and when i go to the device menu (menuconfig) and then graphics once i get my fbdev selected i can see the bootsplash menu at the bottom but i can't get into it. also editing the .config shows no options for bootsplash any help please? thanks!

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i thank you sir! been a long time since i've done bootsplash (2.4.22i think)

will report back if/when its actually working!

gringotts wrote:

waspie wrote:

bootsplash

and when i go to the device menu (menuconfig) and then graphics once i get my fbdev selected i can see the bootsplash menu at the bottom but i can't get into it. also editing the .config shows no options for bootsplash any help please? thanks!

EDIT: my bootsplash only works partially, i.e. on bootup, it seems that bootsplash - or framebuffer to be more precise - thinks i've got 640x480 or 800x600 instead of 1024x768. it only uses a part the screen to print its messages. on reboot/shutdown however, it works just fine.
i have been using 2.6.5-love5 before, which worked perfectly. i tried re-emerging bootsplash, but that didn't help.
any ideas? just tell what info you need.

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